By A Correspondent- Flamboyant businessman Phillip Chiyangwa risks losing half of his wealth after his wife Saniso Katerere instituted divorce proceedings against him.

Katerere who has been customarily married to Chiyangwa for the past 26 years is demanding shares in over a dozen companies after sensationally claiming that Chiyangwa started his businesses with the money he got from selling her father’s properties. Katerere claimed that she sold two of her father’s upmarket houses to lay the foundation for Chiyangwa’s business empire.

Katerere accused the flamboyant Zvimba MP and former ZIFA president of being physically, emotionally and verbally abusive to her during their marriage, prompting her to quit the union.

In her declaration to the High Court, Katerere said. “The defendant (Chiyangwa) stands to be unjustly enriched if there is no equitable distribution of the assets acquired during the existence of the parties’ unregistered customary law union consummated sometime in 1993,”

“Plaintiff contributed significantly to the establishment and growth of the defendant’s business empire and investment vehicles directly through financial means, labour and skill and indirectly by providing the defendant with emotional, physical, domestic support as a wife and as a mother to four of his children from other unions.

Katerere is demanding the equivalent of US$3,500 per month for the maintenance of the couple’s child born in 1999 who is is still in school. She is also demanding university fees, medical aid, flight tickets to and from university and any extra requirements raised from time to time by the university until he finishes his undergraduate studies or becomes self-sufficient whichever occurs earlier plus costs of suit.-ZimLive